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Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
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My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our unhappiness is triggered by either
having less than yesterday,
or having less than our neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Exotic or ordinary, glamorous or plain,
exciting or boring - it's all in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't give energy to perceived dislikes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is serious? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Question every assumption and expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have our thorns - and blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering are
Our Past, and Our Expectations and Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Assumptions are beliefs that don't know they are beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we don't feel appreciated, we don't feel loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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